{"id":11590,"date":"2022-08-07T11:59:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T15:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=11590"},"modified":"2022-08-07T09:23:42","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T13:23:42","slug":"fr-daniel-sysoyev-on-evil-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=11590","title":{"rendered":"Fr Daniel Sysoyev+ on Evil Men\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Lord takes away sinners when they have reached the limits of evil.\u00a0 That is also something obvious to us.\u00a0 The person carried on disgracefully, and the Lord took him in the act, when he had reached the point of evil. But here as well, there are sometimes exceptions.\u00a0 For example, the Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, crossed the line into evil, but the Lord left him alone.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 So that He might demonstrate upon him God’s power and glory, so that all peoples might hold the Name of God in awe.\u00a0 He graphically made it clear how you should not behave, and what would happen to those who behave badly.\u00a0 The Lord specifically states that in His eyes, [Pharaoh] was already a dead man, but that he was left alone so that the fullness of Divine Might could be demonstrated \u2013 as a graphic exhibit\u00a0 to make a point, if you will.\u00a0 It is in this vein that\u00a0 here are cases of extremely lawless people remaining on earth.\u00a0\u00a0 The Lord leaves them here specifically so that He might then demonstrate His glory upon them, and remind people that they should not become attached to the earth. The earth is not the Kingdom of God, in the sense that it is not a place where people will live for eternity.<\/p>\n

– Instructions to Immortals<\/p>\n

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The Lord takes away sinners when they have reached the limits of evil.\u00a0 That is also something obvious to us.\u00a0 The person carried on disgracefully, and the Lord took him […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-orthodox-elders","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11592,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11590\/revisions\/11592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}